On this LIVE DEMO you can see an icon, which is several times bigger on IE 11 than on any other normal browser (FF/Opera/Chrome)
Size must be 12 em as seen on code, but it differs quite a bit between browsers:
.titlePanel [class^="icon-"]:before,
.titlePanel[class*="icon-"]:before{
font-size: 12em;
left: 79%;
line-height: 100%;
margin: 0 0 0 50px;
position: absolute;
z-index: -5000; }
As explained on this one of the many bugs on our beloved IE, pseudo-selectors apply multiple CSS rules when sizing, if there are multiple selectors applied to a pseudo-selector:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/813398/ie-11-css-before-with-font-size-in-em-units-ignores-css-precedence-rules
To avoid this I have changed, as seen on here, to a single rule for pseudo-selectors contained on nav, and anothe single one for those contained on .titlePanel: